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I chair an enthusiastic History Group for our big village. We have now assembled a large (1K+) collection of old village photos, numerous articles scanned in, and are currently involved in scanning in household deeds of significant buildings. All this in addition to four local history books. Names and subjects frequently re-occur across all these references. Additionally, RAF Benson, adjacent to the village, forms a substantial part of...
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Surrey History Centre
Surrey History Centre collects and rescues archives and printed materials relating to Surrey’s past and present, so that they can tell the story of the County and its people to future generations. You can visit our supervised search room to use these fascinating materials and staff are on hand to assist your research. We hold approximately 5 million archives dating from the C12th to the present day, including Parish records, Census...
Bewdley Historical Research Group
...Bewdley Museum has a comprehensive Reference Library, documents, photographs & oral archives for Bewdley, Ribbesford, Wribbenhall, Dowles, Kidderminster, Stourport & other surrounding areas. Bewdley Historical Research Group plays a large part in the care and use of these. Material held includes transcripts and indexes of parish registers and, census returns, monumental inscriptions, trade directories and wills....
Slough History Online
www.SloughHistoryOnline.org.uk is an online collection of interesting stories and characters from Slough’s past, over a thousand photos of Slough past and present, and copies of the Slough, Eton & Windsor Observer dated between 1883 and 1929. The collection primarily concerns the Borough of Slough, Berkshire (formally Buckinghamshire), though our photographic material also include the towns surrounding Slough, such as Eton,...
My Primitive Methodist Ancestors
‘Everyone has a story to tell, what’s yours?’ My Primitive Methodist Ancestors is about sharing stories, memories, photos and research. We all belong to different communities: the place where we live, the people we are related to, our hobbies and interests. Faith communities are an important part of our lives. 100 years ago, there were over 200,000 Primitive Methodists, some for at least three generations, since the...
Millennium Clutch
The CLUTCH Club web site features 60 original stories documenting aspects of life in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and South Northamptonshire between the last 150 years up to the present day. The stories were created by 315 local parents who worked in 60 groups under the auspices of their children’s schools and with the guidance of a Mentor who was usually one of the teachers at the school. CLUTCH was conceived as a project funded by the...
Cottenham Community Archive
Cottenham Community Archive Group is one of many organisations in a thriving village community. The village of Cottenham is about 6 miles north of Cambridge on the edge of the fens. We are archiving photographs, texts, small audio and video clips about our village, past and present. You can search our archive and also add your own records. For people who require assistance adding records, please contact the group. Cottenham Community Archive...
Oxfordshire Family History Society
Do you have ancestors from Oxfordshire? Oxfordshire Family History Society has a wide range of resources for everyone researching genealogy in the county. The range of research tools available for use at the research centre – the “Holford Centre” – is continually being extended, but currently includes :- Parish register and monumental inscription transcripts Pedigree charts and birth briefs International Genealogical...
Lenton Community Association Archive
This is a small archive covering the period 1978–2006 containing papers and photographs relating to Lenton Community Association which managed Lenton Community Centre from its opening in February 1979 until it became The Lenton Centre in June 2006 after it had purchased the building which housed the community centre, a council-run swimming pool and gym for £10. I rescued the records in 2010 after a TLC worker told me that the...
Cranes, Boats and Trains: an intergenerational oral history project
Project Summary St. Thomas More RC School based in North Tyneside working in partnership with Living History North East and the BBC ran this project to equip young people and older volunteers with the skills and resources needed to record memories of the shipyards along the Tyne. It was funded with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The objectives of the project were: To train both young people and volunteers in oral history recording To...
Wise Archive
WISEArchive is an online electronic archive, a non profit making company with a constitution and a Board. It was established to validate older peoples work experience by collecting relevant material and storing it in a secure long term archive. We use the internet to make all submissions available to a wide group of people to add to the rich culture of information, with unique histories from the last century. A recently completed project with...
Women's Archive of Wales
Archif Menywod Cymru / Women’s Archive of Wales exists to promote the study, and to rescue and preserve the sources, of women’s history in Wales. The task of recovering women’s history in Wales is urgent and pressing. Central to the reclamation of our distinctive history is the active process of tracking down, rescuing and conserving historical sources which throw light on women’s lives. We cannot reconstruct our past...
Island History Trust
...Joan Reading It's great to be able to look back and read about the IHT and what's happening there today. I was born at the East London Maternity Home (now known as Steels Lane Health Centre) on Commercial Road and lived on the island from 1958 until I moved to Wales in 1991. I love reading about my early childhood years from other people's point of view. Thank you so much....
Exeter City Council Time Trail
The Exeter City Council’s Time Trail website has been designed to provide an introduction to the history of Exeter to both residents of the area and visitors to the city. Exeter has one of the longest and most distinguished histories of the cities of Great Britain. Over the centuries Exeter has been a Roman Legionary Fortress, a Medieval Cathedral City and one of Britain’s leading early modern towns, with international links. While...
Exploring Surrey's Past
Exploring Surrey’s Past (ESP) is an exciting new online resource (funded by the HLF) which aims to promote the social history, archaeology and heritage in Surrey and is supported by a programme of outreach learning programmes and workshops. The site is a must for anyone who wants to know more about the history of where they live and their community in the county and for teachers the resource can be used in the classroom, with strong ties...
Allen Valleys archive
A visitor from 50 years ago returning to the Allen Valleys would feel very little had changed there in agricultural life. Both the East and West Allen valleys would still appear to be communities relying mainly on agriculture. During the peak of the lead mining industry in the late 1800’s agriculture provided many families with a ‘bread and butter’ income. Small holdings were run to supplement the meager earnings to be made in...
Chorley Remembers
‘Chorley Remembers’ is a heritage project based in the Lancashire market town of Chorley (population 108,000). Devised and managed by the Chorley Pals Memorial, a registered charity that erected a memorial in 2010 to their ‘Pals’ company who fought in The Great War. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and supported by Chorley Council, the main aim of the project is to research the names of the fallen from the town...
Berkshire Family History Society
The Berkshire Family History Society Research Centre has a library containing over 7000 items consisting of books, fiche and CDs. In addition there are seven networked computers with access to subscription genealogy websites like Ancestry.com and findmypast.co.uk plus over 300 pre-loaded datasets with millions of index entries from Berkshire, the rest of the UK and overseas. You can also look through our...
Burrough Green and District Community Archive
The Burrough Green and District Community Archive Group is recording online in the form of photographs, oral, textual and video reminiscences the heritage of Burrough Green, Brinkley, Westley Waterless, Carlton and surrounding hamlets. These villages are in Cambridgeshire, 5 miles south of Newmarket. The archive is in its early days, but we hope that this archive will be a source of historical information for many years to come. You can search...
Wickham Parish Council - Village History
Village History Wickham is enviably situated in Hampshire, surrounded by the attractive countryside of the Meon Valley yet within easy reach of the towns of Southampton, Winchester and Portsmouth. It has a rich and varied history. Local historians are very welcome to submit additional information for the website. A recommended read is A History of Wickham by the late Bruce Tappenden, copies are available from Pages in Wickham Square. The County...
Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Awards for All (A4A) is the small grants scheme administered by the Big Lottery Fund on behalf of lottery good cause funders like Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England. In England A4A makes awards of between £300 and £10,000 to grass roots community groups and voluntary organizations. In March 2007 A4A launched a website – Abolition 200 (https://abolition200.org.uk/) – dedicated to promoting...
Links to national archive websites
If you are new to using archives then you may find these online tutorials helpful. BBC History Website – guides to studying local history https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/local_history/ BBC History Website – guide to studying family history https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/ Archival research techniques and skills – General advice on planning your research and using archives https://arts-scheme.co.uk/ If you want to...

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